CU-CC 3-3

[Al DeFlorio]

Does anyone know what happened to Ferlin? 10 minutes for Interference.

The CC announcers seemed to indicate he mouthed off too much to the referees on the way to the box.  Can't vouch for the validity of that observation.

[cbuckser]

Does anyone know what happened to Ferlin? 10 minutes for Interference.

The CC announcers seemed to indicate he mouthed off too much to the referees on the way to the box.  Can't vouch for the validity of that observation.

Brian Ferlin got a 10-minute misconduct as well as an interference minor.  Nobody observed Ferlin doing anything inappropriate, so the only logical explanation for the misconduct is Ferlin excessively chirping the referee.

[captens1]

Regarding the noisiness of the Faithful, we did have the advantage that one of our sections was right under the announcer's booth.  To be fair, were they announcing from across the arena, we probably wouldn't have sounded like much.

I certainly didn't see Ferlin do anything that deserved the 10 minutes, so I concur that he must have mouthed off.  Actually, I'd have to say the reffing was much better than the ECAC I remember, with the possible exception of a dive by CC on the last tripping minor on CU.

[CTUCK1]

Couple of post-game videos from the weekend series with CC, courtesy of the Colo Springs Gazette.

http://cchockey.freedomblogging.com/2012/01/08/owens-players-react-to-cc%E2%80%99s-tie-vs-cornell/37933/
http://cchockey.freedomblogging.com/2012/01/07/reaction-to-cc%E2%80%99s-defeat-against-cornell/37916/

[Al DeFlorio]

"We generated basically nothing this weekend five-on-five."

[ajh258]

Not sure where to put this, so I'll post it here. Brian Sullivan makes a good point in this week's column about the ECAC's NC record and our inability to get at-large bids:

With only three non-conference games remaining on the league's regular-season docket (Connecticut at Princeton on January 31, and Harvard's two Hockey East Beanpot games), it has been decided that ECAC Hockey will – once again – finish the season with losing records against each of the other "Big Four" conferences: the CCHA, Hockey East, and WCHA. It will mark the fifth consecutive season of such national submission, and with every out-of-league defeat, it gets harder and harder to substantiate the ECAC's claim to "Big Four" status.

In fact, ECAC Hockey has only rolled into the NCAA's with a winning record against one other Big Four league, ever – the CCHA – in the last ten years, and that happened twice: 2004-05 and '06-07. (Potential correction: I feel as though I mistakenly posted that ECAC Hockey had bested Hockey East last season, but in checking my numbers, I see that to be false at this time. But then, maybe I never made that assertion in the first place, in which case ignore all this.) In any event, the conference has been playing what effectively amounts to AAAA ball against major-league opponents, generally crushing Atlantic Hockey foes but falling more often than not to the – let's just admit it – Big Three.

http://www.uscho.com/ecac-blog/2012/01/16/a-special-weekend-indeed/

[upprdeck]

it doesnt help that the IVy schools only get to play those games at bad times..  Cornell could start out playing teams  like CC that have played 5-10 games or play them coming off a florida trip and 2-3 weeks of nothing.

[Chris '03]

it doesnt help that the IVy schools only get to play those games at bad times..  Cornell could start out playing teams  like CC that have played 5-10 games or play them coming off a florida trip and 2-3 weeks of nothing.

It also doesn't help that over the last decade the Ivies have, for the most part, been the better of the ECAC teams and have fewer NC games to play. Ivies play 7 NC games a year for a max 42 NC games vs. "Big Four" teams. They also play a good number of AHA games and they whole "Ivy shootout." I'd guess the Ivies only play around 27 B4 games a year. The non-ivies play, at least, 60 NC games each year with their 32 game schedules plus exempt games.

[Aaron M. Griffin]

it doesnt help that the IVy schools only get to play those games at bad times..  Cornell could start out playing teams  like CC that have played 5-10 games or play them coming off a florida trip and 2-3 weeks of nothing.

It also doesn't help that over the last decade the Ivies have, for the most part, been the better of the ECAC teams and have fewer NC games to play. Ivies play 7 NC games a year for a max 42 NC games vs. "Big Four" teams. They also play a good number of AHA games and they whole "Ivy shootout." I'd guess the Ivies only play around 27 B4 games a year. The non-ivies play, at least, 60 NC games each year with their 32 game schedules plus exempt games.

Reasons why I support an Ivy League Hockey Conference outside of and independent from the ECAC. This discussion has been had previously. The B1G schools are going to make a six-team hockey conference, I doubt anyone will question the competitiveness of that conference. I believe the Ivies could as well with the freedom it would give them to schedule more games against teams from what Sullivan dubbed the "Big Three" (CCHA, WCHA, and Hockey East which will become B1G, NCHA, and Hockey East in 2013-14). However, to undermine my point, the Ivies didn't do well this season claiming a 5-9-3 record against the "Big Three" so far this season.